Commercial gritting in Horley

Office car parks, hotel forecourts, care home ramps and communal paths, gritted from our base in town.

We do commercial gritting in Horley for office car parks, entrances, paths, ramps and walkways, and for the hotels, care homes, surgeries, shops, schools and blocks of flats around them. Horley is home for us, so these are our neighbours’ sites. We treat them by hand when frost or snow is forecast, and log every visit.

This town keeps odd hours. Night staff at the care homes hand over before it’s light, hotel guests set off for early flights, and about a third of residents head south to work at the airport or in Crawley. So we time visits for whoever uses your entrance first.

Flat clay, standing water and the first hard frost

Horley is built on heavy Weald Clay, and the ground is flat, so rain has nowhere much to go. On a car park it lies in shallow sheets along the edges, around the disabled bays and wherever the surface has dipped. Those patches freeze first and thaw last, which is why car park gritting in Horley starts with them. Then come the walkways from the bays to the door, any ramp, the fire exits and the path out to the bins. At the Gatwick Metro Centre and the Bridge Industrial Estate that usually means a unit’s frontage and its share of the parking.

Commercial gritting in Horley for flats on the new estates

Westvale Park has brought 1,510 homes and The Acres another 710, and with them a lot of communal ground: courtyards, shared paths, parking areas and bin store walkways, all paid for through the service charge. A managing agent needs a figure they can budget for and evidence the work was done. A written winter gritting contract, agreed before November, covers the first. Our dated log of every visit covers the second, and an agent with several blocks in Horley can have them all on one plan.

Commercial gritting in Horley: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

Our hotel forecourt is busy at four in the morning. When would you come?

The afternoon or evening before the frost. Salt works best laid ahead of the freeze, so a forecourt treated then is still holding when the first guests wheel their cases out.

Will the care home’s paths be done before the early handover?

The ramp, the main entrance and the walk from staff parking are treated the evening before, and if snow falls overnight we clear those by hand first, then salt them.

Can our managing agent get the visit log directly?

Of course. We’ll send it to the agent, the residents’ management company or the site manager. Each entry shows the date, the time and the routes treated, which helps you show you took sensible steps.

Head office wants proof of insurance from any gritting contractor. Can you send it?

Yes. We’re fully insured, and we’ll send the certificates to head office or your facilities team before the season starts.